Empathy for pain motivates actions without altruistic effects: evidence   of motor dynamics and brain activity

doi:10.1093/scan/nsx016

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	Empathy for pain motivates actions without altruistic effects: evidence of motor dynamics and brain activity
	Han, Xiaochun ; He, Kang ; Wu, Bing ; Shi, Zhenhao ; Liu, Yi ; Luo, Siyang ; Wei, Kunlin ; Wu, Xinhuai ; Han, Shihui
刊名	SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
	2017
关键词	empathy altruistic behavior cingulate somatosensory cortex fMRI ANTERIOR INSULAR CORTEX NEURAL RESPONSES INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES DISPOSITIONAL EMPATHY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX PLACEBO ANALGESIA FMRI-ADAPTATION OTHERS PAIN PERCEPTION NETWORK
DOI	10.1093/scan/nsx016
英文摘要	Empathy has been supposed to be a proximate mechanism of altruistic behavior. We investigated whether empathy for pain drives actions without altruistic effects and how such actions modulate neural responses to others' pain. In two experiments, we asked healthy adults to press a button for no reason when viewing video clips showing faces with pain expressions receiving needle penetration or faces with neutral expressions receiving a cotton swab touch. Experiment 1 found that participants pressed a button with greater response force when watching painful than non-painful stimuli. Participants who reported greater unpleasant feelings pressed the button harder when viewing painful stimuli. Experiment 2 revealed that passively viewing painful vs non-painful stimuli increased blood-oxygen-level-dependent signals in the middle cingulate cortex, supplementary motor cortex, and bilateral second somatosensory and inferior frontal cortex, which, however, were reduced by the action of button press without altruistic effects. In addition, individuals who reported higher personal distress illustrated greater decrease of the second somatosensory activity induced by button press. Our results indicate that empathy for pain motivates simple actions without altruistic effects that in turn reduce neural responses to others' pain, suggesting a functional role of action execution in self distress relief when viewing others' suffering.; National Natural Science Foundation of China [31470986, 31421003, 31661143039]; SCI(E); SSCI; ARTICLE; 6; 893-901; 12
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/469138]
专题	生命科学学院心理与认知科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Han, Xiaochun,He, Kang,Wu, Bing,et al. Empathy for pain motivates actions without altruistic effects: evidence of motor dynamics and brain activity[J]. SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE,2017.
APA	Han, Xiaochun.,He, Kang.,Wu, Bing.,Shi, Zhenhao.,Liu, Yi.,...&Han, Shihui.(2017).Empathy for pain motivates actions without altruistic effects: evidence of motor dynamics and brain activity.SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE.
MLA	Han, Xiaochun,et al."Empathy for pain motivates actions without altruistic effects: evidence of motor dynamics and brain activity".SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE (2017).